The latest issue of Islamic State's magazine praises those who carry out terror attacks in Western countries including Australia, and gloats about the deployment of police and soldiers in the streets of Western cities in response to such attacks.

Eurozone finance ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to seek a solution to the debt stand-off with Greece's new anti-austerity government before its bailout expires at the end of the month, the EU says.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn sits in the dock with a prostitute and a brothel owner nicknamed "Dodo the Pimp", as his lawyers argue the case against the former IMF chief is based on a secret, state-ordered probe.

Police in Paris arrest a dozen people suspected of helping the Islamist militant gunmen in last week's killings at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the city prosecutor's office says.